N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. 117 pp. By the author of the Tuck-Me-In Tales. Colorplate on frontispiece. Vintage stickers adhere to 3 of the pages. One colour plate is missing. Some finger smudges in text. Evidence of hinging at half title page. A few corner folds in text. Text is complete. Former owner's name in pencil on ffep. Illustrated cloth on boards binding has bumps to corners and head and foot of spine.. Hard Cover. Poor - Fair. Illus. by Harry L. Smith. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4.

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Bookseller: Ghost River Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004927
Title: The Tale of Chirpy Cricket
Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
Illustrator: Harry L. Smith
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor - Fair
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication: N.Y.
Date Published: 1920

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...